Obama's Intelligence Agenda: More of the Same from the "Change Administration"

[Paul Rigby]

And after the bannerfest at said inauguration dear boy, Obama and his team will go back to the White House, pour themselves a large bourbon, sip it, smile, and then go about doing what they've been hired to do.

Bourbon? For Clinton retreads? Nah.

You're quite right about the certain indifference of the "new" masters of the (shrinking) universe, but they're not the target audience: We need an early dramatisation of the forthcoming betrayal for the benefit of the poor sods who put their trust in Wall St.'s Team B.

Then there needs to be some new thinking and genuine creativity. The challenge is considerable - how to create, or merely simulate, in the absence of any kind of "left" in America, a bloc that will act as some kind of counterweight to the corporate gangsters.

The answer has to lie in a combination of the wallet and US international credibility as a democracy. Suggestions solicited.

As are cheques, but no balances.

Paul